Word: typist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prague, Czechoslovakia, deformed Chemist Josef Kopriva was snubbed by cold-hearted Typist Marie Stanovich. Sly Josef Kopriva coated numeral key 7 of Marie Stanovich's typewriter with slow-poisoning radium, watched day by day as pains grew worse in her hands and wrists, tits of blindness seized her. finally confessed he had tried to kill...
...days later someone snapped an electric light switch in the joint office of Chiropractors Charles Baumler and Peter J. Barbour. Two bombs attached to the light system splintered the office, injuring Dr. Barbour and four patients. In an adjoining office a typist named Helen Bosland "felt something snap" in her head. Afterwards she complained of severe headaches. One day last week she died, of sinus trouble and heart dilation. Week ago Chiropractor William Cooper was awakened by a baby crying next door, got up and turned on the lights of the bathroom in the rear of his house. He heard...
Every member of President Paul von Hindenburg's household, from his bashful scrubwoman to his self-important State Secretary, sat down to lunch at one long table in the drawing room two days before Christmas. Beside pallid, big-jowled Old Paul sat his buxom, apple-cheeked typist. The flustered scrubwoman sat next to the President's handsome son, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter, had the hall porter on her right. A telephone girl sat with bespectacled State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner who had very little to say. Across the table...
...Evanston last summer, a lean, rangy, dark-haired girl from Dallas, Tex. won six first places. She amassed for her team-of which she was the only member-a total of 30 points, to 20 points for a team of 22 which finished second. Overnight Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, a typist for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co., had become a national sports figure. At the Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained bitterly because...
...National Government needed his prestige to survive its first hard months. He became president of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. He married a second time. His first wife, to whom he was devoted, was long an invalid, died in 1930. His second was Stella Charnaud. who had been first his typist, then his chief political adviser. She is 38, was once offered a $25,000-a-year-job in Wall Street which she promptly refused. Her solicitude is extreme for her husband who, at 72, has all the suavity, grace and quickness of mind he possessed in his barrister days...